Beautiful People

(You can click the title to hear a song I chose that goes well with this blog post :)
This post is kind of an in-depth addition to Julia's previous post.
Have you ever realized that when you get to know someone better, their faces become more beautiful to you? There's got to be something about that that has to do with psychology. Maybe it's that when someone becomes more familiar to you, it's more comfortable to you and for that reason you can easily accept the familiarity of their appearance.

But I think more than that everything links back to God's hand in things, that he created us and chose us to have the natural features we have. Just a tiny change to someone's face is extremely noticeable and can completely change how they look, the angle of a nose, the cheekiness of someone's smile, the shape of one's eyebrows, an extra wrinkle in a smile, the width of an eye. There are just so many combinations of features that go into a face, and for that reason each face is absolutely unique, just as God planned it. What's more, God planted a future, a plan, a personality into each one of our hearts. When you combine that special unique face with a particular personality, you get a life that is absolutely one-of-a-kind - unrepeatable and irreplaceable. That's the catch: every life is precious and beautiful.

It is the norm in society to love people who are physically beautiful. But how about we begin loving people in order find the great beauty that lies behind their appearances, the beauty of their souls that make their physical beauty amazing in every single way. Because everlasting beauty is found within, it's a beauty that will never die. Perfect skin and luscious hair will inevitably fade with time, but personality and purpose won't. Society doesn't decide who's the most beautiful, God does and he made each individual beautiful and unrepeatable, precious beyond measure.

People are Like Tie-Died T-Shirts!

Just this Sunday I was at my friend's, Joyce's, birthday party and at the party we tie-died white T-shirts. The entire experience was loads of fun, but I think what was also fun was to go home and imagine what my shirt would look like. Well, I can tell you, it turned out even better than expected!

What is really cool, is to see all the other shirts that were made too, because each shirt is totally unique. Even though they are all different, it doesn't mean that one is better than the other, because they were all made with excitement and anticipation.

The T-shirts that we made are like people, who are created with love and excitement and anticipation by God. He makes each of us different, but not in a way that we can make comparisons; instead, in a way that speaks to His creativity. We are each beautiful, awesome creations of the master artist!

Our Soul: An Eternal Alignment

Did you know that within every one of us there is a part of our making that is eternal, which is called our soul. If you think about it, our soul, since it's eternal, is part of the spiritual world around us. It's alive and very involved with the other eternal powers that are within this world.

When I mention "eternal powers," I mean either the power of Love or the power of Hate. Both of these forces influence the world, and its events and people. Love is a blanket term that represents whatever is true, honorable, right, pure, lovely, and admirable (Philippians 4:8). In short, love is God. Hate, on the other hand, is a blanket term that stands for whatever is fallen from God: deceit, betrayal, revenge, envy, ect.

Throughout our lives, we choose which side we want to align ourselves with. We can either focus on Love and live our lives seeking God or we can choose to live a fallen life. A fallen life is any life that has rejected or ignored Jesus' grace and redemption, which He offers to us freely. Through either choice, our soul becomes a part of something eternal. We just have to ask ourselves: what do we want our lives to be centered around? What story are we a part of?

Jesus be my everything

During the last couple of weeks, I've been going back and forth on having a HUGE crush on someone. We've gone a lot through out this year and lately i've been thinking about how in our friendship I am the only one taking the time to pray for him text him first and also say hi. But i can't let him define who i am I know my heart belongs to Jesus and he should be the lover of my soul. I do hope him and I go back of being friends. Right now I have to find my worth in Jesus please be my everything.